Re: [gentoo-embedded] OSWALD

[Tim Harder <radhermit@gmail.com>]

On 2010-08-02 Mon 20:23, wireless wrote:
> Interesting..... The are using a OMAP 3530 (Cortex A8) core
> Neon SIMD coprocessor, TMS320C64 DSP and a SGX 530 2d/3d
> video chip. with a 3.5 inch resistive touch LCD (QVGA).

Yeah, the device is sort of like a Beagleboard with a LCD and several
more input options. However, there are several other hardware
differences such as we don't use the TWL4030 chip that the beagle uses
for power management, I2C, etc.

> Somebody should approach these folks and do some serious 'birds of a
> feather' type of sales pitch. It'd sure be very cool to get a big
> university hooked on embedded Gentoo, ARM style, methinks.........

I agree. However, Intel is also a major player at OSU and so they want
us to stick an Atom in our next major hardware design. We'll have to see
how things turn out for the next hardware rev.

Also, most of the software repos for the OSWALD are available at [1] if
anyone's interested and hasn't found them yet.

Tim

[1] https://code.oregonstate.edu/git